I always had a dream to someday own an NBA team.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
My dream was to be in the NBA. I wasn't really focused on being a star player on a team. I just wanted to make it to the NBA. I've been blessed for the opportunities to be in the Finals, been in the playoffs ever since I've been in the NBA.
My childhood dream was to play basketball, actually.
That's a dream of mine, to be able to coach at the NBA level.
It's a dream come true. I get to play for my hometown team, the team I grew up rooting for.
I lived to play basketball. Growing up as a kid, Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics were my favorite team. The way they played, the teamwork, the sacrifice, the commitment, the joy, the camaraderie, the relationship with the fans.
My dream was to play for Alabama - football, basketball.
Growing up, I always dreamed of winning an NBA championship, never a gold. A gold was something that never crossed my mind.
I spent 50 years in the NBA. Can you imagine doing something that you love the most in the entire world and doing it for your entire life and, besides that, getting a pile of money for it? It's unbelievable. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. And I know it.
I had never dreamed about the NBA like some guys did. I was a non-scholarship player at an NAIA college. I played on the Boys and Girls Club team in my freshman and sophomore years of high school before I made the high school team. I was our backup center in college.
I always dreamt of being a basketball player. A dream that only I believed in.